Re: alt tags on useless graphics

On Sun, 12 Apr 1998 01:07:05 -0400 (EDT) Frederic Briere
<fbriere(at)abacom.com> writes:
>  Note that there is no ALT attribute for OBJECT, since the actual text
>  enclosed within the element plays the very same role.

Whoops!  My mistake!  ;-o

>In general, TITLEs would probably be descriptive, whereas ALT would not
be:
><IMG HREF="search.gif" ALT="[ Search ]" TITLE="Search our database">
><IMG HREF="logo.gif" ALT="ACME Corporation" TITLE="">
><IMG HREF="tbl.gif" ALT="[ picture of Tim Berners-Lee (65k) ]"
>	TITLE="Tim Berners-Lee, father of the WWW">
>Frederic Briere

Yeah... but these should be <IMG SRC="file.gif" ... >  And according to
the WAI WD, (and I'm paraphrasing here) you should avoid making a graphic
out of text and leave that to CSS. To me, this means that all other valid
graphics would NEED some kind of explanation, no matter how brief:

<IMG SRC="gc.gif" ALT="Picture of the Grand Canyon" TITLE="More
elaboration">

While it is true that TITLE *DOES* elaborate (that's how I have used it)
on this picture, ALT must give an indication of what's there, not only
for backwards compatability, but because it is more widely recognized.

My 4 cents...

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